Author Archives: Paul

nothing is written – resilient, talented lions surge to the head of the ivy football class

allgame seldom comments on the lion football program, so lamentable has been its performance.  the current eleven, however, deserves commendation. twenty years ago, my sons and i sat in the top tier of franklin field shrieking our joy at columbia’s … Continue reading

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done

contrary to reporting in the Columbia Spectator, it wasn’t until penn’s jackson donahue drilled an nba distance trey to seal the quakers win over harvard on saturday night that the columbia lions men’s basketball season ended.  columbia’s valiant rear guard effort  … Continue reading

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staying alive! the lions stop the quakers

one day after playing perhaps their worst game of the year, a gritty lion squad ended the penn basketball team’s five game winning streak and put themselves in position to play in the first ivy league post season hoops tournament. … Continue reading

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downs and ups, a gritty lion squad gets ready to visit new england

the lions five traveled to philadelphia on february 10th and fell to a previously winless (in league) pennsylvania crew.  the failure is gruesome enough given the quakers’ previous ineptitude but columbia managed to revert to those behaviors it had seemed … Continue reading

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half way home

last weekend, the lion hoops crew split two rousing battles in front of nearly packed houses.  the games against yale and brown both featured the lions’ now tough, if not impenetrable, 2 – 3 zone, improved three point shooting and … Continue reading

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north and south, the ivy league season gets real

the columbia lions will journey to the finger lakes this saturday to commence the 2016 – 17 ivy league campaign. cornell’s big red should be subdued by a light blue squad that is starting to play some solid ball, but … Continue reading

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a lot of fun but still a loss

when paulie b was undergraduating, he spent nearly as much time playing half court hoops as he did contemplating matters literary.  lacking a quick first step or reliable jump shot, he depended on enthusiastic rebounding, pestiferous hand checking defense and … Continue reading

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of two minds

the new columbia hoops season is one road trip and two home games old and allgame has already been treated to the menu of  frustrations and thrills this crew can provide.   the home opener versus army was our first opportunity … Continue reading

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o brave new world! lions tip off the 2016 – 17 campaign

last time out we bade hail and farewell to the departing quartet of lion hoopsters (messrs lo, rosenberg, mullins and cohen) who had so wonderfully entertained us.  we wished them godspeed in the (less than) prestigious c.i.t. tournament where the … Continue reading

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a valedictory

the 2015 ivy league basketball season ended  at levien gymnasium on the first saturday of march. a championship banner was raised, but it was decidedly too dark a blue. the yale five claimed their first ncaa tournament berth since 1962 … Continue reading

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